Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

Posted Dec 4, 2003 1:09 UTC (Thu) by sward (subscriber, #6416)
In reply to: Savanna.gnu.org compromised too by QuisUtDeus
Parent article: Savanna.gnu.org compromised too

The actual damage from these attacks hasn't been much, true. But the potential damage, if these had gone undetected for long enough, was considerable - because of the "leverage" to be gained by attacking a distribution repository such as this. I imagine that at least part of the cracker(s) motivation was that leverage effect.

I just hope the GNU folks are on their toes; backdooring GCC would provide even more leverage...

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